It notifies me on both... it just doesn't send an e-mail for anything except trade requests... and sorry for taking so long to reply. I got carried away clearing out other kinds of TODOs over the weekend. I'll see what I can find either in the next couple of hours or after I've slept.

No worries, I'm not actually in a rush. I just have a thing with uncertainty. Also, the other comment chain got a bit disorganised somehow. Anyway, that's cleared up, so take your time. I'm off to sleep myself

Hi buddy, I hope you're well? I have sent as request over Steam to discuss a potential trade. I hope I haven't overstepped my bounds in doing that, any offence or perceived ignorance or arrogance is completely misconstrued and is the furthest thing from my intentions. Kind regards PhantomTa2

I'm fine... you just had bad luck. Lately, I haven't been that interested in the Groupees bundles, so I didn't notice that I'd been logged out, and I almost never log into Steam... and neither send me e-mail notification of new messages.

Sorry for taking so long to respond. Life was very busy and your message got buried beneath a pile of "new PC/Mac/Linux/Android version" and "Steam key added" notifications. To answer your question, no. I'd never even heard of barter.vg... probably because it requires Steam to log in.

Itch.io is good or stuff with downloads right in Groupees that you left un-revealed. I used to love Desura but, given the legal limbo it's in, I don't want to risk being forced to rely purely on my DVD+R backups should it vanish in the bankruptcy proceedings.

Also, sorry for taking so long to notice your message. I've been avoiding the new UI because it makes downloading everything in a freshly-purchased bundle awkward, so I didn't realize the notification e-mail was misconfigured.